Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction: Fei Xiaotong and the Beginnings
of a Chinese Sociology, by Gary G. Hamilton
and Wang Zheng

1. Special Characteristics of Rural Society
2. Bringing Literacy to the Countryside
3· More Thoughts on Bringing Literacy to
the Countryside
4· Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association
5· The Morality of Personal Relationships
6. Patrilineages
7· "Between Men and Women, There Are
Only Differences"
8. A Rule of Ritual
9· A Society without Litigation
10. An Inactive Government
11. Rule by Elders
12. Consanguinity and Regionalism
13. Separating Names from Reality
14. From Desire to Necessity

Epilogue: Sociology and the Reconstruction
of Rural China, by Gary G. Hamilton and
WangZheng
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Gary G. Hamilton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Wang Zheng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.